Probably the most fun video in a long time, between celebrating the flips, random swearing in italian, the "pi# code cracking", card trashtalking, the story about you vindicating your own land and activating gideon jura to attack on 2nd main...just overall very fun :D
Seeing Snapcaster playable in Modern brings a tear to my eye. Literally the creature that helped me become ibsessed with Modern. If only Cryptic Command were even mildly useful.
I want to add the 0 mana interaction to my modern deck for the reasons you mentioned in the intro. But FoN is still so pricey in paper! Maybe someday. I did just pick up a couple Vexing Bauble for the sideboard though, to hopefully punish others for running 0 mana interaction/evoke/etc 😏
I refuse to call my monkey a card of the past! Just kidding. It surely went down in playability by a lot. Currently I am running 3 Monkey/3 Tamiyo but thinking about going down to 2 Ragavans. I find myself siding them out most of the time, but stealing a game 1 by dashing into the opponent is a fealing close to a Tamiyo ultimate. 4 Tamiyo sometimes feel clunky because of it beeing a legend though (which is not a problem for Ragster, because it almost always dies immediately :D), so for now i wanna stay on 3.
Sounds reasonable. I also dont want to give up ragavan completly and had similar thoughts. Time will tell, what the ideal ratio will be. Good luck for you with that split
In the third match in the first game, the opponent didnt do anything for a while. Why did you do something at the end of their turn every turn? Like drawing cards over seven, etc.? Actually curious.
I'm actually top 1000 on arena playing timeless with wizards control. Just because someone talked about timeless in the video xD I could share the decklist, if you're interested. Loving all the modern videos, btw!!
@@AndreaMengucci 3 Mishra's Bauble 4 brainstorm 4 tamiyo 2 galvanic discharge 4 lightning bolt 3 snapcastar mage 4 mana drain 4 counterspell 3 tishana's tidebinder 1 flare of denial 2 harbinger of the seas 4 flame of anor 3 lorien revealed 2 treasure cruise lands: (1 sink into stupor) 3 island 2 mountain 4 steam vents 1 thundering falls 1 bloodstained mire 1 polluted delta 4 scalding tarn Sideboard: 2 spell pierce 3 stern scolding 2 galvanic discharge 2 unlicensed hearse 2 disruptor flute 2 blood moon 1 brotherood's end 1 flare of denial i would really love to discuss other options xD and yes, i think tamiyo is insane. it gives you everything. it's card advantage and a mana sink. it's a wincon. it's a wizard for flame of anor. a blue creature for flare of denial. it works very well with mana drain, brainstorm, mishra's bauble, flame of anor, treasure cruise and lorien revealed xd just insane xp it's a one mana card that wins you the game without the polarity that other threats like ravagan offer, that are way too risky in a sense that there are games where it is irrelevant. but still, i'm sure there are better ways to build this archetype xp
3 Mishra's Bauble 4 brainstorm 4 tamiyo 2 galvanic discharge 4 lightning bolt 3 snapcastar mage 4 mana drain 4 counterspell 3 tishana's tidebinder 1 flare of denial 2 harbinger of the seas 4 flame of anor 3 lorien revealed 2 treasure cruise lands: (1 sink into stupor) 3 island 2 mountain 4 steam vents 1 thundering falls 1 bloodstained mire 1 polluted delta 4 scalding tarn Sideboard: 2 spell pierce 3 stern scolding 2 galvanic discharge 2 unlicensed hearse 2 disruptor flute 2 blood moon 1 brotherood's end 1 flare of denial i would really love to discuss other options xD and yes, i think tamiyo is insane. it gives you everything. it's card advantage and a mana sink. it's a wincon. it's a wizard for flame of anor. a blue creature for flare of denial. it works very well with mana drain, brainstorm, mishra's bauble, flame of anor, treasure cruise and lorien revealed xd just insane xp it's a one mana card that wins you the game without the polarity that other threats like ravagan offer, that are way too risky in a sense that there are games where it is irrelevant. but still, i'm sure there are better ways to build this archetype xp
Hi, just learning about modern from your video series. Why do you choose to bolt tamiyo during opponent’s upkeep after they untap? Is it do you force them to spend mana on their turn rather than in your end step?
Mengu's force of negation in hand can be cast for free on his opponent's turn, so he wants to cast the bolt on his opponents turn so he can force of negation any response they may make.
What do you think about the Jeskai version mengu? The wrath that kills leylines and sagas and Phlage, Uro Reincarnated seem like a worthy reason to add white
Very happy to see you Mr. Mengu :) We had a quick chat on your Rakdos Vampires post and I'm trying to get started with Modern as well. Would you and Chatters buy now some cards Fetches, Elementals etc. and which Deck would you suggest to begin with Modern? And as well which Deck do you think will still be there after 3-4 weeks so things will calm down and set the meta? Glad for any tips Mengu and fellow viewer.
@@AndreaMengucci i just feel like it is so many times a counterspell that's harder to avoid and more unexpectable. a possible stone rain in a 3/2 body at instant speed, a way to deal with artifacts, cavern of souls. it's just such a flexible resource that it is hard to not seeing it being good xp but i admit i'm not very familiar with modern xp i only watch your videos xD never played it myself xp
i know that you used this title last time, but invert polarity was the busty card of the league, tamiyo was just ok....imagine a world that polarity gets more expensive than raganvan...unlikely, but a man has the right to dream right?
@@piquanta7no, but not because it’s not in the graveyard (it still is in the graveyard) but because it’s not a CARD (it’s a token). Escape requires you to exile CARDS to pay for its cost so even though it’s in the graveyard it doesn’t count as something you can use to pay for escape. Same with delve.
@@piquanta7 given the timings on casting, I imagine there is never a way to have a treasure count for delirium. If you sac the treasure before you cast anything, state based actions removes it before you can cast the card with delirium. If you intend to use the treasure to pay for the spell or ability with delirium, you would first have to lock in the cost before saccing the treasure to pay for the cost, so the spell/ability will never see the treasure in the graveyard. I guess I could see an ability that sacrifices an artifact as part of the resolution of the spell and it also having delirium, but I’m not sure there are any cards like that, and the delirium effect would have to be an additional effect, as sometimes delirium effects are replacements effects. At that point, you would just need to actually see what the card says to determine if the treasure would count.
Ledger Shredder is a different card. It flies, loots, and gets bigger. Tamiyo draws a card and can flip to a planeswalker. Being a wizard is also very relevant. Shredder can be a budget option for a Izzet Murktide temp build
Your hatred for Amped Raptor is really confusing --- It's a two mana two for one that is also mana advantage--- there's no type of resource that isn't efficient in. Just about the only disadvantage it has is that it wants you to fill your deck with cheap spells ---- something that competitive MTG decks already want to do.
its a high variance card and the upside is not crazy, your reasonable best case is a bonus 2/1 first strike. Any higher upside comes with the downside risk of whiffing. flipping removal on an empty board sucks, not flipping removal when you need it also sucks. the power really hinges on how valuable the extra energy is worth when you whiff running it out early, and I'm not sold its worth enough.
like if you are t2 otp, its so rough to run it out and whiff on another creature if you need to pressure, and its not like invert polarity where u swing the entire game when u hit
